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Marilyn Monroe and Hugh Hefner were born in the same year and buried in the same graveyard. But as Louise Perry points out in her book “The Case Against the Sexual Revolution,” they met completely different fates. Marilyn died a tortured sex symbol of the burgeoning sexual revolution, while Hefner lived large as the quintessential playboy, capitalizing on the same sexual liberalism. “The story of the sexual revolution isn’t only a story of women freed from the burdens of chastity and motherhood, although it is that,” Perry writes. “It is also a story of the triumph of the playboy —...

Okay, on a previous thread there was quite a bit of disagreement on this subject and the posts and responses were getting a bit crossed, so I decided to try and compress the arguments a bit. So... here goes... Cats are better than women because: 1. Cats don't care how much money you have. Good cat food and a warm place to sleep and you are golden. 2. Cats do not demand, or even understand the concept of breakfast in bed. Start opening the can or the bag of food and they are on the way. 3. Cats dislike chocolate,...